Shuffle your deck and draw a starting hand of 7 cards. Put the rest of your deck facedown in front of you.
If you dont have a basic Pokemon card in your hand (itll say Basic Pokemon in the upper-left hand corner of the card), show your opponent , shuffle it back into your deck, and draw 7 new cards. Your opponent may now draw 2 extra cards. If you still dont have a Basic Pokemon in your new hand, you can repeat this process, but your opponent gets to draw 2 extra cards each time!
You and your opponent each choose a Basic Pokemon card from your hands and put them facedown. These will be your Active Pokemon.
Put the top 3 cards from your deck facedown in front of you. These are your prizes, which you take as your opponents Pokemon are Knocked Out. You cant look at a prize card until you take it.
Flip a coin to decides who goes first, or Ro-sham-bo for it.
Flip over the Active Pokemon that have been put on the table.
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